1984: George Orwell and Czechoslovakia (25 June - 25 September 2024)
Outdoor exhibition, Kampa Park opposite Werich Villa, Prague 1
The Museum of the Memory of the Twentieth Century, in collaboration with Kampa Museum, Prague City Tourism, Libri prohibiti and The Orwell Society, has prepared an exhibition on the life and work of the writer George Orwell and Czechoslovak reflection on his work. The exhibition also presents the Orwellian year 1984 in Czechoslovakia, the repression of opponents of the communist regime and expressions of solidarity with political prisoners.
The opening will take place on 25 June 2024 at 6 pm. After the official opening of the exhibition we will move to Werich Villa, where we will present a Czech-English catalogue with a number of unique photographs and documents, which will be available for purchase on site.
The opening of the exhibition will be attended by Quentin Kopp, President of the British Orwell Society. The catalogue will be presented by its editor and director of the Museum of Memory of the 20th Century Petr Blažek, co-authors of the exhibition Petr Koura, Ladislav Nagy, Kryštof Zeman and other guests.
The exhibition is held under the auspices of the Deputy Mayor of Prague Jiří Pospíšil and the Mayor of Prague 1 Terezie Radoměřská.
You are cordially invited!
"The terrible thing about modern dictatorships is that there is absolutely no precedent for them. Their end cannot be foreseen. Sooner or later in the past, men overthrew every tyranny, leaning on human nature, which by its very nature yearned for freedom. But we absolutely cannot say with certainty that human nature is constant. To breed a human race that will not desire freedom is perhaps as possible as to breed a race of hornless cows. The Inquisition failed, only the Inquisition did not have the resources of the modern state. Radio, censorship of the printed word, standardized education, and secret police changed everything. Mass suggestion has developed into a science in the last twenty years, and we do not yet know how successful it will be."
George Orwell
